Comments on: Freedom, Symbolism & what all this means to being healthy http://www.yewhealth.com/2009/08/07/freedom-symbolism-what-all-this-means-to-being-healthy/ Handstands @ 90 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:37:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Baimengling http://www.yewhealth.com/2009/08/07/freedom-symbolism-what-all-this-means-to-being-healthy/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Baimengling Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:14:14 +0000 http://www.yewhealth.com/?p=88#comment-33 Health is not for ourself. Bad health doesn't affect ourself more than others:<br>- Think about how much people have to care about an ill old parent.<br>- Think about how much society has to spend in healthcare. <br>- Think how much job productivity is lost in sick leaves.<br>When media are trying to persuade us that stopping cigarette smoking, or slimming down is good for us, they are actually carrying propaganda to try to cut overall disease and unfitness costs.<br>Therefore I think that when people refuse to stick to healthy habits they are (sometimes) consciously or (most of the time) subconsciously acknowledging that they are not individually responsible for all the social problems. And they refuse to individually make efforts to benefit a society which is in every way trying to put them down.<br><br>By the way thanks for replying, and for your blog, it's very nice! Health is not for ourself. Bad health doesn't affect ourself more than others:
- Think about how much people have to care about an ill old parent.
- Think about how much society has to spend in healthcare.
- Think how much job productivity is lost in sick leaves.
When media are trying to persuade us that stopping cigarette smoking, or slimming down is good for us, they are actually carrying propaganda to try to cut overall disease and unfitness costs.
Therefore I think that when people refuse to stick to healthy habits they are (sometimes) consciously or (most of the time) subconsciously acknowledging that they are not individually responsible for all the social problems. And they refuse to individually make efforts to benefit a society which is in every way trying to put them down.

By the way thanks for replying, and for your blog, it's very nice!

]]> By: tanyewwei http://www.yewhealth.com/2009/08/07/freedom-symbolism-what-all-this-means-to-being-healthy/comment-page-1/#comment-32 tanyewwei Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:57:48 +0000 http://www.yewhealth.com/?p=88#comment-32 Thanks for giving a chance to clarify. <br><br>No doubt, there are lots of stuff to worry about in the world. All I'm stipulating is that health is part of the equation, and yes it is something we can do, since it for ourselves by ourselves. Good day. Thanks for giving a chance to clarify.

No doubt, there are lots of stuff to worry about in the world. All I'm stipulating is that health is part of the equation, and yes it is something we can do, since it for ourselves by ourselves. Good day.

]]> By: Baimengling http://www.yewhealth.com/2009/08/07/freedom-symbolism-what-all-this-means-to-being-healthy/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Baimengling Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:01:48 +0000 http://www.yewhealth.com/?p=88#comment-30 What is the most efficient to escape from jail? total health, terminal illness or suicide<br>- total health is the condition to be able to fight your guards, and run away to some people waiting for you with an airplane...but you seriously risk to get killed, and wherever you go you won't really be free, cause you'll allways risk to get back to the jail anyway, and will have to seriously hide.<br>- terminal illness is rather efficient way to escape, first of all cause your mind may be altered enough not to feel imprisonement anymore, secondly because you might be granting freedom for your latest weeks before death, as a compassion act.<br>- suicide is obviously the ultmiate escape, though it has no power to set you free, only to supress you.<br><br>Therefore I don't believe health equates freedom for all of us which are trapped by social problems (pollution, joblessness, homelessness, domestic violence, slave jobs, overcrowded cities, mafia, gangs, etc...)<br>In society freedom is to have money/power enough to make choices: the air to breathe, the water to drink, the food to eat, the shelter to shun from rain and snow.<br>But most people do not have that level of wealth, therefore there is a far bigger culprit to obesity than Big Mac, it's poverty! What is the most efficient to escape from jail? total health, terminal illness or suicide
- total health is the condition to be able to fight your guards, and run away to some people waiting for you with an airplane…but you seriously risk to get killed, and wherever you go you won't really be free, cause you'll allways risk to get back to the jail anyway, and will have to seriously hide.
- terminal illness is rather efficient way to escape, first of all cause your mind may be altered enough not to feel imprisonement anymore, secondly because you might be granting freedom for your latest weeks before death, as a compassion act.
- suicide is obviously the ultmiate escape, though it has no power to set you free, only to supress you.

Therefore I don't believe health equates freedom for all of us which are trapped by social problems (pollution, joblessness, homelessness, domestic violence, slave jobs, overcrowded cities, mafia, gangs, etc…)
In society freedom is to have money/power enough to make choices: the air to breathe, the water to drink, the food to eat, the shelter to shun from rain and snow.
But most people do not have that level of wealth, therefore there is a far bigger culprit to obesity than Big Mac, it's poverty!

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